Fedora Core 2 Update: kernel-2.6.6-1.435
Marc Lucke
marc at marcsnet.com
Fri Jun 18 06:55:19 UTC 2004
Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
> At 21:04 6/17/2004, Ed K. wrote:
>
>> I can't wait for ftp to retire for organized archives. http and
>> bittorrent
>> should be all that is needed. no http header equivalent for ftp.
>
>
> Just curious... I thought FTP was significantly more efficient for
> transferring files...? Yes/no/why?
>
> Cheers,
>
>
FTP sucks for transferring many files. HTTP has something chunked
transfers or something (?) and persistent connections and you don't need
to worry about passive or active or firewalls, binary or text or
anything. P2P technology is even better because everyone is the
server. FTP is still OK, I guess, for large file transfer.
Marc
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